What kind of defenses does Coruscant have?

Zaku-chan · Post by **Zaku-chan** » 2002-12-05 07:30pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:I assume you mean how and where.

Urk...yes. Damn my bad grammer.

I addressed both in part already. The vast fleet of atmospheric airspeeders and airhooks on Coruscant can easily move billions in minutes.

"Attention we need ten to fifteen million air speeders to do twenty minutes work for fifty credits to help save the planet. All interested please go to the following sector and do the following....."

A plant with a Quadrillion people would easily have enough hotel space to hold that many people, but its not like a day without a bed to sleep in would hurt anyone if that's not an option. Construction driod's are constantly at work on the planet and can build skyscrapers in minutes. The whole area could be rebuilt overnight.

Good points, all.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2002-12-06 06:51pm

Also Coruscant is mentioned to have light capital ships based on the planetary surface up to and including light destroyers, such Victory-class Mk. II vessels.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-12-07 04:28pm

What they should have done is hollowed out one of the moons, filled it with ships, and have them come out when needed.

Zaku-chan · Post by **Zaku-chan** » 2002-12-07 04:43pm

consequences wrote:What they should have done is hollowed out one of the moons, filled it with ships, and have them come out when needed.

AFAIK, Coruscant has no moons.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-12-07 05:00pm

Zaku-chan wrote:
consequences wrote:What they should have done is hollowed out one of the moons, filled it with ships, and have them come out when needed.
AFAIK, Coruscant has no moons.

It has four. Chances there also covered in cities. The SSD was only buried and concealed by the force to provide a secret escape ship for the Emperor. It wasn’t interned as a defensive vessel though it could of course be used as such. That’s why they didn't go to the trouble of building something more elaborate in a moon or something. It's easier to just put them in orbit.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2002-12-07 06:49pm

Ok here is a question about the Coruscant shields. If a SSD was able to blow it's way out surely the same fire power could blow it's way in? If this is true how come ppl keep talking about shields that can withstand any bombardment?

Biddybot · Post by **Biddybot** » 2002-12-07 07:34pm

And here is another question (from someone unfamiliar with any EU background): In Ep III, how realistic are my chances of seeing the Jedi Temple complex destroyed by a planetary-based bombardment? Or a simple raid on the complex, likewise devastating it? (Obviously, traitorous insiders would be involved here.) I can't recall ever hearing any discussion of Coruscant's defensive/offensive capabilities in any SW movie, so presumably the whole subject's still open for development to suit any future plotting...

Thanks!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-12-07 07:54pm

Darth Pounder wrote:Ok here is a question about the Coruscant shields. If a SSD was able to blow it's way out surely the same fire power could blow it's way in? If this is true how come ppl keep talking about shields that can withstand any bombardment?

The most likely explanation is your assumption is not correct. Fire directed from the inside may overly strain the generators. The ship likely also had the ability to selected a weak spot like Torpedo Spheres can, and we don't know how good of shape the generators where in. having there power supplies destroyed may have meant they where using a weaker thirdly level emergency system while the grid was rebuilt.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-12-07 08:22pm

The ship destroyed more than 100 square kilometres of surface buildup when it took off, along with whatever equipment might have been sitting in those areas. It is not unreasonable to imagine that this might be somewhat disruptive to the local portion of the shield grid.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-12-07 09:04pm

I just re read the part from The Krytos Trap where Lusankya blasts off. Really, for that ship to bunch a big enough hole through both shields so that it could fit through is rediculous. In Wedge's Gamble the Alliance was shit faced about the damn shields. Unless I have to go back over even more pages prior to Lusankya lifting off, then both sheilds were up and fine. I understand this a Super Star Destroyer but then again, the Rebels showed up in orbit packing all sorts of hell. They might have had to split up defenses between the Golan's and Imperial ships, but outside of the Corvettes they didn't have much of a problem. Just figured that making a ship as uber as possible doesnt mean you toss out previous information.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-12-07 09:55pm

The Rebels had also fucked over the main shield generating point not long before, and may have had a juryrigged substitute that couldn't take as much punishment. Its also possible that Iceheart had embedded a computer virus to reduce the shield strength when she sent a signal, or simply sent out teams of saboteurs to take out as many generators as possible.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-12-07 11:01pm

There was also a very heavy electrical storm in the region, and the ionization from the storm may have slightly weakened the shields. Given 1) the damage to the shield generators
2) the electrical storm and
3) the decrease in power generation due to the electrical storm
I don't see it as unfeasible that the shields would go down under an SSD's bombardment.

FireNexus · Post by **FireNexus** » 2002-12-08 12:36am

If this ship is a last ditch effort for the emporer himself, wouldn't he have the authority to turn the shields off?

Though I've never read the book, so i might just be a complete moron...

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-12-08 01:10am

the closest thing is in Wedge's Gamble one of the power stations was destroyed. However there is no way to tell where that was done, and where Lusankya left. Nor if they left the station unrepaired. It's UNBELIEVABLE I tell ya for that damn ship to blast its way through the planetary shields of Coruscant. It's defense system that is mentioned on many occasions to be virtually impenatrable. The only time anyone was worried was during the Black Fleet Crisis. Thier stupidity led to the Vong take over. Other than I could really only see an Eclipse blasting through, and in such short order.

arctic_series · Post by **arctic_series** » 2002-12-09 01:43am

well might be the fact that since the ssd is supposed to be the emperor's personal escape vessel.

the emperor must've taken into account the whole planetary shields getting in the way and all, there must've been some sort of uber shield section override for the ssd to get away and then the shields closes the hole screwing any likely pursuers. yes ?

Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot · Post by **Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot** » 2002-12-19 02:04pm

In Star by Star the New Republic had half(literally) of their fleet defending Coruscant in addittion to the huge numbers of defence platforms(I'm not sure how many but given that the defence platforms at Borlieas numbered into the hundreds I'd guess at least eight or nine hundred) and the planetary mine shell and shield as well as so many defence batteries planetside that one salvo obscured half the planet from view.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2002-12-19 03:11pm

They might have lowered the shields on purpose--did they really want the Lusankya crashing into the shields and its flaming remnants falling on the Imperial City?

The fleet at Coruscant was not half of the New Republic's entire fleet resources. That's millions of ships. Millions of ships that weren't there and probably being hoarded by local Senators at their home Sectors.

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What kind of defenses does Coruscant have?

Coruscant Bombardment?